Early goals crucial as Glanmire beat Bandon in cracking PIFC opener
Daniel Molden scores from the penalty spot for Glanmire against Bandon goalkeeper Ciaran McCarthy in the McCarthy Insurance Group PIFC at Ballincollig. Picture: Larry Cummins
Glanmire outbattled Bandon in a highly entertaining PIFC game played in beautiful sunshine at Ballincollig.
Glanmire scored two first-half goals, crucial in a titanic battle.
Credit to Bandon who pressed hard and got back on level terms after trailing by seven points at one stage of the opening half. But Glanmire had terrific pace in attack with Brian Galvin and Cathal McCarthy which proved too hot to handle.
Aided by a slight breeze, Glanmire opened the scoring with an excellent point from the outstanding Brian Galvin after a good team move. Both defences were on top early on as both teams wasted a couple of decent chances. Bandon replied in excellent fashion with their talisman Michael Cahalane landing three points on the bounce, the third a superb effort with his left foot.
Glanmire reduced the gap to the minimum with a long-range effort from David Lynch before Brian Galvin landed a sweet equaliser: 0-3 each. Glanmire hit the front when James Crowley flicked over a good point from play.
The city side were really dominating now and a superb run from Daniel Hogan resulted in a Glanmire penalty after he was pulled down with the goal at his mercy. Experienced full-forward Daniel Molden made no mistake with a bullet to the corner of the net, 1-4 to 0-3 at the end of the first quarter.
A shell-shocked Bandon landed a badly needed two-pointer with an excellent effort from Conor Calnan. Glanmire doubled their goal tally after a brilliant individual effort from Cathal McCarthy to establish a significant lead.
Molden converted another chance from Glanmire with a well-taken score which pushed their lead out to seven points.
But Bandon rallied significantly in the closing minutes of the opening half with a magnificent two-point score from Michael Cahalane from a very difficult angle. The impressive Conor Calnan reduced the gap to four points by finishing off an excellent team move, 2-7 to 0-9 at halftime.
On resumption, Cahalane landed a placed effort before the experienced Molden cancelled it out with a Glanmire free. Bandon continued to press with Jack Cullinane clipping over before Michael Cahalane landed a glorious two-pointer. Bandon landed the equalising score with a fine effort from substitute Darren Crowley, 0-14 to 2-8 after 40 minutes.
Both sides failed to score for the following 10 minutes before Glanmire seized control of the contest. Goalkeeper Brendan O’Connell edged them in front with a placed free before excellent points from Darragh Murray and Brian Galvin edged them three points in front.
Cahalane replied with a free for Bandon as the tension mounted for the closing minutes. Glanmire were under plenty of pressure at this time but counter-attacked brilliantly with the lively Cathal McCarthy landing a lovely individual score.
DMurray, who had an excellent game, added another before McCarthy sealed the victory with another super score.
D Molden 1-3 (1-0 pen, 0-2 f ), C McCarthy 1-2, D Lynch, B Galvin 0-3 each, D Murray 0-2, B O’Connell (f), C Crowley 0-1 each.
M Cahalane 0-11 (2 2pt, 0-4 f ), C Calnan 0-3 (1 2pt, 0-1 f), J Cahalane, D Crowley, P Murphy 0-1 each.
B O’Connell; R McSweeney, C O’Donovan, O Kelleher; B Murphy, D Kenneally, D Murray; C Crowley, T Hourihan; D Hogan, J Crowley, B Glavin; C McCarthy, D Molden, D Lynch.
R Barry for J Crowley (41), H Jones for R Barry ( 48, inj), A Marron for B Murphy (50), K Kenneally for D Lynch (55), R McCarthy for B Galvin (62).
C McCarthy; E Twomey, B Crowley, E McSweeney; C Lynch, P Murphy, C Calnan; R Long, D O’Donovan; J Calnan, J Mulcahy, P Callinan; M Sugrue, M Cahalane, J Cullinane.
D Crowley for M Sugrue (h-t), C Long for P Calnan (43), J Callinan for D O’Donovan (55).
P O’Leary (Kilmurry).
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